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i tempt to stop action wont get him
THE DAY BOOK
very far.
N. D. COCHRAN
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
SOO S. PEOniA ST. CHICAGO. ILK
Irculatlon, Mdnroe 3628
SUBSCRIPTION By Carrier In Chi
cago, '-') cents a Month liy Mail.
United States and Canada, (Z ou a
Year
Entered as second-class matter April
21. 1914. at the postofftce at Chicago
111., under the Act of March 3, 1S.9
MRS. THORNTON; LAND DEAL
ER. Mrs. Thornton as a school trus
tee seems to follow the old rule that
bids us "let one hand wash the oth
er." If the school system had des
perately needed the property owned
by Mrs. Thornton's sister, "property
on which records show her husband
as taxpayer, it would have been a
good public service for Mrs. Thorn
ton's kin of blood and marriage to
sell the school board that playground
site. What creates the stench in the
neighborhood of the Chicago school
board is, for one thing, its policy of
secrecy.
A"ong with the wrecking of civil
service, a blotch on the record of
Jake Loeb's administration is its 'per
sistent refusal to permit aldermen,
elected representatives of the people,
to examine original official records of
the board. There isn't much money
involved in the Thornton land deal.
But the facts as uncovered show that
crooked contracts ahd crooked real
estate deals can be put over the board
and its a slim chance aldermen, par
ents of school children, citizens in
general, have to get at the truth.
Credit is due in this affair to Aid.
Buck, whose report uncovered the
raw deal, to Chairman Lynch of the
council schools committee, and the
aldermen of that body who have been
for the searchlight. Aid. Blaha's at-1
BEERLESS BEER. What is beer
is beer, and what is not beer is not
beeL Nothing more simple eh? And
yet Chief Healey and Miss Sears of
Juvenile.Protective ass'n are deep in
dispute whether wet goods at tha.
Cadillac cafe is beerless or not. "It
is. real beer to us and near-beer to
the police," says Miss Sears. Worse
yet, says Miss Sears, the wet goods
was hauled .to the Lewis Institute
and put through test tubes and
found with 5 per cent of alcohol in
it. On this evidence she says it's
better than beerless beer.
Yet Chief Healey has his come
back. It is that CapL Joe Smith of
22d-st did a little test tube work
himself and found that the beer had
only about 1 per cent alcohol,
"thereby making it a non-intoxicat-.
ing liquor."
A bottle of Edelweiss is also to
figure in evidence. On this one bot
tle it is.- proposed to build a case
against Chief Healey. Bets are being
made that if the suits are brought be
fore Judge Caverly he will reply that
a case of beer would make a strong
er rase in law than a bottle. Such
are the intricacies of beerless beer.
ONE! It is reliably reported that
the uncovering of the Thornton land
deal is the first one of a series of acts
under the present administration of
Jake Loeb which are to get the spot
light. This is a good time to get tha
spotlight working. The nest of offi
cialism and wire-pulling having its
headquarters in the Tribune bldg.
needs plenty of light Physically lo
cated on territory subject to the fa
mous Tribune midnight least, the
school board has seemed under a
hoodoo. Chairman Lynch and the
aldermen of council schools commit
tee supporting him have started ca
a good job.
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